Advice to Writers: A Compendium of Quotes, Anecdotes, and Writerly Wisdom from a Dazzling Array of Literary Lights - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 0679443878 ISBN 13: 9780679443872

Verlag: Pantheon Books, 1999

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Book by Winokur Jon

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An anthology of advice on writing features the contributions of Euripides, Mark Twain, Cynthia Ozick, P. J. O'Rourke, Annie Dillard, and Virginia Woolfe

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re than four hundred of the world's most celebrated writers and booksmiths--from Euripides and Eudora Welty to Cynthia Ozick and P. J. O'Rourke--is a treasury of useful advice on the world and work of writing. Compiled by the author of The Rich Are Different and the best-selling Portable Curmudgeon, Advice to Writers includes priceless counsel on subjects ranging from writer's block and writing dialogue to dealing with agents and editors and appearing on television; from work habits and procrastination rituals to drinking on the job; from success, money, and fame to the lack of one or all of them.

Flaubert, Twain, and Kipling impart their venerable wisdom. Red Smith tells us that "writing is easy. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein." Annie Dillard, David Guterson, and Maureen Dowd offer practical suggestions. David Remnick describes the ideal editor. A genre's-eye view comes from science-fiction master Harlan Ellison and

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• Verlag: Pantheon Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0679443878
• ISBN 13: 9780679443872
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 227
• Herausgeber: Winokur Jon